Hey Jim,

Hmmm... the re-synch is no problem. It's what to do with the heat
generated by the reactor, maybe one million pounds of steam (or
more??) per hour while they "idle" the turbines. Not even a big
cooling tower can do THAT. SCRAM the plant first.

Take care.

Brian Lawson,
Bothwell, Ontario.
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 04:51:28 -0700, mawdeeb
wrote:

The nuclear side of the plants themselves do not shut down, just the
generating grid that they are hooked to. The problem when bringing
everything back online is re-syncing the ac freq of the generators to
the grid frequency. The wrong frequency would load down the line and
re-trip the system again.

Jim Vrzal
Holiday,FL.

DejaVU wrote:
so, Gunner and his survivalist buddies have a point after all!

but I still fail to understand why the nuclear plants shut themselves
down? anyone care to explain?

swarf, steam and wind

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